12/07/2021
Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic
Left: Young Nigerian graduate Becky developed a great passion for baking cakes and pastries and decided to build a baking business after graduation. Right: Drum makers from the mountains of ed Arab Emirates are producing a traditional instrument. PHOTO: UNESCO-UNEVOC/Ruth Oluniyi Pemisola (left), UNESCO-UNEVOC/Alejandro Marecos (right)
World Youth Skills Day 2021 will again take place in a challenging context due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
- UNESCO estimates that schools were either fully or partially closed for more than 30 weeks between March 2020 and May 2021 in half the countries of the world. In late June, 19 countries still had full school closures, affecting nearly 157 million learners. And 768 million more learners were affected by partial school closures.
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12/07/2021
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jul 12 2021 (IPS)* – Youth advocates from Asian countries called for an overhaul of a system that excluded young people from participation in policymaking.
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Some of the delegates at the Intergenerational Dialogue of the Asian Parliamentarians and Youth Advocates on Meaningful Youth Engagement. Credit: APDA
During an interaction with parliamentarians from 23 countries, youth representatives considered an enabling political framework to be the most crucial reform required to remove inequities.
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12/07/2021
Work together to end preventable deaths from toxic chemicals
7 July 2021 (ILO)* — Millions of workers around the world lose their lives every year or suffer from chronic diseases due to toxic chemicals in the workplace. In a video message to the Berlin Forum on Chemicals and Sustainability, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, says global cooperation is needed to end these preventable deaths and illnesses.
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12/07/2021
Left: Young chess players from New York City in the UN “Fighting stereotypes with Judit Polgar, Planet 50-50 Champion” event, 2017. Right: A young man playing chess in Yerevan, Armenia. PHOTO:Left: UN Women Right: Flore de Préneuf /©The World Bank
While the coronavirus outbreak has forced most gaming and sports activities to scale down, chess has demonstrated remarkable resilience, adaptability and a very strong convening power in time of pandemic.
Over the past few months, the overall interest in chess is reported to have doubled, with more players than ever coming together to participate in chess events that are being increasingly held through online platforms.
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12/07/2021
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 2021 (IPS)* – When a Southeast Asian ambassador hosted a lunch for journalists, including reporters from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, he told us there was an ulterior motive for the sumptuous lunch at his residence.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefing journalists in a pre-pandemic era. At left is his Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elias
“We will soon begin our two-year term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council – and we need your cooperation (read: news coverage)”.
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